The Rainmaker

[5] Burt Lancaster stars as a conman promising rain for dollars to struggling farmers in the drought-ridden South. He almost gets away with his latest swindle, but burgeoning feelings for one of the farmer’s daughters (Katharine Hepburn) threatens to make an honest man of him. It’s a very atypical role for Hepburn, playing a spinster desperate for a man. But she pulls it off, despite …